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there are many other possibilities there:
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These are just beliefs, and beliefs alone do not guide the culture war. Those who wage it take other considerations into account as well.
I am confused how it changes things. You listed bunch of possible beliefs and implied that there are no other options. I mentioned some other possibilities.
I think it makes sense to differentiate between personal beliefs that are held as self-evident for whatever emotional inclination, and deductions/assumptions made about the outside world that encourage you to engage in culture-warring.
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In this case it's true that there are women as strong as Imane Khelif (though to me that's more evidence that she's not a man). She's got 9 losses on her record, if it weren't for a difference in weight classes she would be facing one of the Irish boxers who beat her handily in the 2020 Olympics again.
I'm not sure "cuts weight and loses, puts on a bunch of muscle and starts kicking ass" is exactly an argument in favour of 'khelif is not that great anyways' or whatever people are trying to argue here. I did watch part of the Broadhurst fight now, and Khelif is certainly visibly more muscled now.
'Khelif is not that great anyways' is a hard argument to make given that she's now fighting for a silver medal. 'Khelif handily beats everyone except for other medal winning boxers' just means she's a top contender.
I was talking about Kellie Harrington who once had a 32 fight winning streak and is fighting for gold tomorrow. Women's boxing isn't that big of a sport, you are going to have lots of skewed bouts until you get near the end of the tournament because the best fighters severely outmatch the rest.
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A man is going to have an easier time cutting weight, less of the female bodyfat that is more or less uncuttable.
Sure -- but he will be weaker. Khelif is 6'1", and fought Broadhurst at 62.5 kilos, which is what, 135lbs? I'm 5'10", and I don't think I've ever been 5'10" and 135 lbs; by the time I got to my full height in high school I weighed like 145 and was weak as fuck.
So "loses to Broadhurst, eats some cheeseburgers and puts on ten pounds of muscle" (also much easier if you have some testosterone in the mix) explains quite well (to me) why Khelif is more dominant now than before?
I'm not gonna look for vintage photos, but this looks pretty different to me than the Broadhurst video.
Male pro at 5'10 135
Extra test gets you extra muscle. A male minimum health body fat is 8-10%, while for women it's closer to 16-20%.
Also, on wikipedia she's listed at 5'10". Assuming she cuts some weight, probably walking around at 150-160. Which is roughly the height and weight I was when I started rowing in college.
It's 183 cm from the tape on the match you linked -- this is quite a big difference as to how much weight one should be carrying. (not to mention pretty far out on the bellcurve itself for non-testosterone-puberty enjoyers.)
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